Why isn't the UN doing more to stop what's happening in Ukraine?
CNN
Watching the brutal images of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has many people around the world asking, why isn't the United Nations doing more to stop the war? Among them, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself.
"You need to act immediately," Zelensky implored the UN Security Council during a live-streamed address April 6 to its members.
He begged them to do something to stop the war in his country, criticizing the Security Council's inaction directly. And he called out the elephant in the room: Russia, one of the five permanent members of the Council, whose status gives it the ability to veto any action it disagrees with.
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